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From: "Eric J. Chet" <ejc@gargoyle.bazzle.com>
To: Jeffrey Barber <jab@rock.anchorage.net>
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Subject: Re: Very Slow Ethernet Link
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Hello
	Take a look at your numbers again, I see them a FreeBSD being
3x faster than Linux on a localhost ping.

                                              Eric J. Chet
                                               - ejc@bazzle.com

On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Jeffrey Barber wrote:

> Ok, I just installed FreeBSD 2.1 and boy this is slow, Example:
> 
> bash$ ping localhost
> 
> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.356 ms
> 
> 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.1 ms